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Joint Usage and Research Center for Behavioral Economics
News
Oct 28th, 2026
"Revisiting the Price Elasticity of Charitable Giving: Meta-Analysis of Tax Incentives and Matching Donations", Associate Professor Gwen-Jirō Clochard and Professor Taisuke Imai (with Shubham Dey, Shusaku Sasaki) has been accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Oct 28th, 2026
Associate Professor Séverine Toussaert (University of Oxford) is visiting us from Oct 28, 2026 to Dec 19, 2026.
Oct 19th, 2026
Associate professor Paolo Zeppini (Université Côte d'Azur) is visiting us from Oct 19, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026.
Oct 19th, 2026
Professor John Duffy (University of California, Irvine) is visiting us from Oct 19, 2026 to Nov 13, 2026.
Oct 8th, 2026
"Learning and Information Diffusion in Decentralized Markets:
Experiments and a Computational Model", Professor Nobuyuki Hanaki (with Giulia Iori, Pietro Vassallo) has been accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination.
Upcoming Event
11/6
Elaine M. Liu
Georgia State University
10:30 ~ 12:00 (Online)
11/9
Jeong Yeol Kim
KDI School of Public Policy and Management
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
11/10
Selo Imrohoroglu
University of Southern California
10:45 ~ 12:15
11/16
The 29th Moriguchi Prize
11/24
Chang Liu
National University of Singapore
11:15 ~ 12:15
11/24
Antonio Ciccone
Universität Mannheim
16:00 ~ 17:30
11/30
Séverine Toussaert
University of Oxford
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
12/3
CUHK-Hitotsubashi-Osaka Workshop on Political Economy
12/8
Yusuke Ishihata
Duke University
09:45 ~ 11:15
12/9
ISER Women in Economics Forum
Program Link12/11
Jin Ye
The University of Osaka
10:30 ~ 12:00 (Online)
12/14
Jin Wang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
1/22
Peiran Jiao
Maastricht University
16:30 ~ 18:00 (Online)
2/8
Tetsuya Hoshino
Kyoto University
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
2/15
Sanjeev Goyal
University of Cambridge
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
3/15
Jawwad Noor
Boston University
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
3/28
U-OSAKA International Behavioural Public Policy Workshop (IBPPW)
Program Link4/5
Andrzej Baranski-Madrigal
New York University, Abu Dhabi
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
4/12
Johannes Abeler
University of Oxford
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
4/19
Mira Frick
Princeton University
10:30 ~ 12:00 (A301)
4/19
Ryota Iijima
Princeton University
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
4/26
Ilwoo Hwang
Seoul National University
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
5/6
Michael Weber
Purdue University
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
5/10
Sukjoon Lee
New York University, Shanghai
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
11/8
Philip J. Reny
University of Chicago
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
Research Highlights
Robustly Optimal Voting Rule
Noriaki Kiguchi,
Shinpei Noguchi,
Yuta Takahashi
Journal of Economic Theory,
forthcoming
Takuro Yamashita,
Shuguang Zhu
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics,
18
(3)
pp.1-38
2026
DOI: 10.1257/mic.20240324
Eugene Malthouse,
Charlie Pilgrim,
Daniel Sgroi,
Gwen-Jiro Clochard,
Nobuyuki Hanaki,
et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS),
123
(12)
2026
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2504632123
A Behavioral Explanation for the Puzzling Persistence of the Aggregate Real Exchange Rate
Mario J. Crucini,
Mototsugu Shintani,
Takayuki Tsuruga
Journal of the European Economic Association,
forthcoming
Junichiro Ishida,
Wing Suen
International Economic Review,
67
(3)
pp.997-1013
2026
DOI: 10.1111/iere.70066
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